mashif
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| Why did you lean one way or the other For me, the tube preamp defines the emotional color of the sound and a great SS amp delivers that uncolored to my speakers. | |
| How important is an LCD screen on your streamer? I chose my Pulse specifically because it has no screen. I don't like any additional light in my room or electronics in my components. I even use little black stickies to cover unnecessary LEDs. I place them so just a sliver of light peeks through. | |
| Any thoughts? Lock in 3 years of Qobuz at today's rate After some research, I've come to believe the offer is more of a customer retention strategy than a cash grab. I went ahead and did it. | |
| Any thoughts? Lock in 3 years of Qobuz at today's rate I'm on the fence too. The offer suggests a need for a cash inflow. If they can't sustain things with the current subscriber base, the long term prospects seem shaky. I want to buy music access, not pay down corporate debt. I'll probably stick wi... | |
| high end standmounts that do not punish poor recordings? +1 for EQ in this case. | |
| Speaker questions ProAc, Harbeth, ATC Many recording studios use ATC speakers. You might contact some and see if they will let you listen. Or Pro Audio dealers. | |
| Speaker questions ProAc, Harbeth, ATC I've auditioned 4 ATC models. They're all great sounding speakers. But there's a big difference between the 2 and 3 way lines. The 2 ways sound beautiful but polite. The 3 ways sound beautiful and ROCK! Absolutely no distortion at high volume with... | |
| Room Treatment? How important is it to treat the wall behind/between the speakers? That's good! If the low end sounds okay you might be set. Otherwise bass traps in the corners behind the speakers should help. | |
| Room Treatment? How important is it to treat the wall behind/between the speakers? A couple of corner bass traps and some diffusion in the area between the speakers are what I would recommend. You want to avoid parallel walls front and rear so diffusion behind the speakers will help break up standing waves. | |
| Suggested upgrade paths That's a classic symptom of too live of a room. Whatever you can do to absorb some higher frequencies would help. Carpet, drapes, artistic acoustic panels, etc. are what will help most. | |
| Qobuz Connect Innuos told me that QC does not use it's internal playback engine. It bypasses the internal system Sense uses and uses it's own software incorporated into the Pulse firmware. So some of the variation in performance must be related to how QC is ins... | |
| Digital Room Correction: Where in the chain? I was on the verge of buying a Weiss 502 DAC for exactly that reason. It has DSP for room correction, or enhancement, built in so everything works in the digital domain before the analog conversion. EQ, De-esser, vinyl emulation, etc. It's a bri... | |
| Adventures With Subwoofers I use an SVS sub which has very comprehensive DSP over most parameters. Changing the rolloff to 24db instead of 12 makes a huge difference in how it interacts with the mains. I also use a 24db HPF on my mains to reduce the bleed. I tried two subs ... | |
| Qobuz Connect I posted recently about a similar problem with QC. I use an Innuos Pulse with a Bryston BDA3. The BDA-3 uses mechanical relays to switch resolution to preserve SQ but there is an inherent delay. With Sense, there is a setting to adjust for that, b... | |
| You are there vs. They are there I think a balanced system does both depending on the recording. The spatial information is embedded in the recording. Some mixes feature vocals or other instruments "in your face" with the rest behind and maybe lead instruments projecting forward.... |